Reiner Leidl

Thanks for mentioning! Wondering about the economics recently bsky.app/profile/leid..., I did not even imagine that there are sources such as the ESA space economy portal space-economy.esa.int or the partly historical, overview paper by the UK Institute of Economic Affairs iea.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Ökonomie der Mietpreisbremse, nach aktueller Begründung des BVerfG: "Der Gesetzgeber trägt mit der Regulierung der Miethöhe einem sozialen Ungleichgewicht Rechnung, das durch den hohen Bedarf und das knappe Angebot an Miet­wohnungen entsteht."
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Diesbezüglich Nachholbedarf hat offenbar auch der GKV-Spitzenverband, während die Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung unter @kbv.de zu finden ist.

PS. Als wichtigste Standesvertretung hat die Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Apothekerverbände (ABDA) leider keinen Auftritt in @bsky.app!

Sehr lesenswerte Übersicht zur - umstrittenen - Weiterentwicklung der Apotheken in der alternden Gesellschaft!

The Critical Medicines Act (CMA): Next steps Europe faces persistent shortages of critical medicines, affecting patients’ access to essential treatments. COVID-19 and the geopolitical context have exposed the fragility of medicine supply chains ...

Negotiations on the EU Critical Medicines Act, an important issue, are still ongoing. www.beuc.eu/tools/critic...

The contributions of evidence-oriented scientists, decision-makers and journalists is so much more important in a world of debates unconstrained by rationality. Just see the next steps. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Bremen: Verletzter Kormoran klopft bei Notaufnahme Ein verletzter Kormoran hat sich bei einer Bremer Notaufnahme gemeldet. Der Vogel hatte einen Angelhaken am Schnabel. So reagiert das Personal.

The smart cormorant at the emergency ward is further detailed by a news video www.zdfheute.de/video/kormor...

In the unlikely case this was not true, it would still be a waterfowl: a canard...

Verletzter Kormoran sucht Hilfe in Bremer Klinik Kurioser Einsatz für die Bremer Feuerwehr. Ein Kormoran in Not macht sich an der Eingangstür einer Klinik bemerkbar. Im Schnabel des Tieres hängt ein Hangelhaken.

Even cormorants know the German health system will provide excellent help: this guy knocked at an emergency ward in Bremen and was relieved of a painful fishhook in his pecker. www.n-tv.de/panorama/Ver...

Very inspiring substac on AI use in breast cancer screening, even touching costs. Relevant for widespread use, the latter may require detail and management: A recent life-time model indicated that meeting cost-effectiveness may not always be guaranteed. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40983310/

How to Navigate the Shifting International Order A Conversation With Finnish President Alexander Stubb

An intriguing complement to Canada's Marc Carney's Davos speech: Finnland's President Alexander Stubb @alexstubb.bsky.social finds multilateralism a more effective way of coping than the multipolarity paradigm, in the further development of the world order. www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/how...

Der Mann in unserem Kopf: Wie wird das alles enden mit Donald Trump? Einstweilen gibt es kein Entrinnen – Trump bleibt unser albtraumhaft faszinierender Fetisch. Ein Suchtbericht.

Ein Schritt heraus aus dem ständigen Trommelfeuer des 'sitting president' - das verschafft eine Atempause; trefflich verfasst vom SZ-Streiflicht-Chef Hilmar Klute. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit The firm wants to create a network of "orbital data centres" to power artificial intelligence.

With spaces in low earth orbit getting constrained, under which conditions could a real estate market for them develop, and eventually account for the externalities linked to utilization? Or will competition be solved by traditional means: pioneers first, then force? www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you not sure about it, forgot it, or your moral would not cover it, then it might help to recall this hundreds of years old legal principle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

The original of this historical speech by Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social, which he meanwhile has affirmed with good reason, can be found on Youtube. He starts with a few words in French, but then continues in English. bsky.app/profile/mark...

Trumps „Friedensrat“: Der Chairman hat das letzte Wort Die Gründungscharta des „Friedensrats“ zeigt: Trump steht allein und auf Lebenszeit im Mittelpunkt. Im Bündnis mit Autokraten und Mitläufern will er die Vereinten Nationen ablösen.

Spitzzüngiger Kommentar zum Friedensrat von Borris Herrmann, Amerika-Korrespondent der SZ, die es mit zwei Accounts, @szde.bsky.social und @sz-dossier.de, noch nicht geschafft hat, Bluesky @bsky.app regulär zu bedienen www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/trum...

📰 The US National Defense Strategy is out!

🌍 GMF experts offer their analyses on what this means for the US, Europe, the Indo-Pacific, US Congress and beyond.

Read it here: buff.ly/qj68NZj

Partisan Consumerism: Experimental Tests of Consumer Reactions to Corporate Political Activity | The Journal of Politics: Vol 82, No 3 To what extent do consumers’ preferences change when they learn about firms’ partisan allegiances? We address this question by conducting a series of experiments in which Democrats and Republicans wer...

Partly experimental research has shown that consumers may respond to corporate political advocacy, e.g. doi.org/10.1086/707491, also finding stronger effects for those on the politically losing side doi.org/10.1016/j.jb.... How much this could ease the start-up phase of networks, remains to be seen.

Buy European is easy to sell, and motivation to change may be higher now than pre-2025. Are there any effective incentives for early adopters, including providers of goods and services? Yet, change may be less likely in constituencies with high shares of right-leaning voters honored by big Tec-bros.

WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. The notification of withdrawal raises issues that will be con...

As a founding member of @who.int, the United States of America has contributed significantly to many of WHO’s greatest achievements, including the eradication of smallpox. WHO has always engaged with the US, and all Member States, with full respect for their sovereignty. 1/4

A multifold loss for the world: @who.int has lost a key member and supporter, the U.S. has deleted, adding on to USAID, another cornerstone of its international soft power, and health risks have been increased at the global level, including the U.S. itself.

What a great speech, in difficult times: honest, realistic, and forward looking!

Clear statement, not claiming a need for political repositioning, but starting to implement a position adapted to new challenges.

What a striking difference between negotiated and value-based drug prices, in current U.S. control of drug cost! For negotiation, evidence inputs should clearly be defined. If visible to the public, value-based evidence may increase price transparency, especially when other aspects are dominating.

In entscheidenden Momenten die Stirn zeigen, wie Boris Herrmann treffend anmahnt: Auch das gehört - noch - zur Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft, die so sehr in 'troubled waters' geraten ist.

Bundespräsident Alexander Van der Bellen begrüßt EU-Kommissar Magnus Brunner in der Präsidentschaftskanzlei.

Gerade dann, wenn Europa von außen geteilt oder beherrscht werden soll, ist es wichtig, dass wir Europäer gemeinsam handeln. Wir bestimmen selber, wohin der Weg geht. Österreich soll und wird weiter eine konstruktive Rolle auf diesem Weg einnehmen. 1️⃣

Ein österreichisches Kulturgut, das sich viele in Europa, auch wir, zu Herzen nehmen sollten!

Strategic alternatives - or at least, add-ons - to enlargement may include increased cohesion if not unity, and member-states' strategic backup, with respective effectiveness to be considered.

At a memorial symposium in Hanover, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu gave a very personal speech on public health, which extended to the EU's engagement in global issues ec.europa.eu/commission/p...